Nagarajuna In & As KEDI (2010) Movie Review By Greatandhra

Film: Kedi

Rating: 2.5/5

Cast: Nagarjuna, Mamta Mohandas, Sayaji Shinde, Harshavardhan, Brahmanandam, Ankur, Anushka, Mehak, Linda, Poula, Pavala Syamala, Jayavani etc

Art: Srikanth Ramisetty

Action: Selva

Editing: Shravan

Cinematography: Sarvesh Murari

Music: Sandeep Chowta

Producer: D Shiva Prasada Reddy

Screenplay, Dialogue and Direction: Kiran

Released On: 12th Feb 2010

This is the much awaited film of big star in 2010. Expectations are pinned on this film after Adurs and Namo Venkatesa those did an ‘ok’ job at box office. Let us get into the details to know how it faired.


Story:

Ramesh, whose nickname is Rummy, gets into love with his friend Janaki in childhood itself. They spend good time together but Janaki advises him to grow powerful in society by earning big money. She also tells that she would marry him only then.

Rummy (Nagarjuna) becomes a gambler and starts earning. He betrays the men those become rich by false means through his gambling. ACP Sekhar (Sayaji Shinde) plans to catch Rummy but his attempts fail every time.

Rummy attracts Chandra (Ankur) who runs a pub and gambling in it. He settles a smuggling deal with Rummy and accomplishes that. In the meanwhile, in Goa, Rummy wins the heart of Linda (Nadia) as he saves her sister Sara (Poula) from a cruel man called Victor. Linda proposes to Rummy but he negates it.


On the other hand, Sandhya (Mamta Mohandas) helps Rummy in his missions. Who is Sandhya and what happened to Janaki? That is the suspense thread in the film that gets revealed in the climax.

Performances:

Nagarjuna excelled as usual and there is no point to criticize him anywhere. He is looking younger year by year and that stands to be his USP.

Mamata Mohandas is just ok. She could have shined better being a glamorous quotient on silver screen. Costumes and make up could be better.

Brahmanandam brought many hopes whenhe entered but more was expected from him. Harshavardhan did good job.


Others are ok. Ankur in bad guy character did his best.

Cinematography is good. Editing is crisp and direction is commendable. Lyricist Chinni Charan wrote all the songs in the film and all are in tune with the contemporary taste of audience. But the music could have elevated the beauty of songs.

Highlights:

Harshavardhan
Cinematography
'Mayagadu raa ee Mayamashinda...' haunts venafter walking out from theatres.
'Mu mu muddante chedaa.. brought applauses in theatres

Disappointments:

Music
Too many twists confused the narration
Anushka appearance in introduction song is not in tune with expectations


Analysis:

This is the movie that has been in news ever since the announcement of its title. The stills with youthful get up of Nagarjuna pulled the attention of many and the first proposed title ‘Rummy’ also caught the attention. Later, it was announced that the title changed to ‘Mosagadu’ that sounded rugged and old. Finally another obsolete title ‘Kedi’ was zeroed in. Many felt ‘Rummy’ could be the ideal title for this film as the hero’s nick name is Rummy (Ramesh) and it is also a card game that denotes gambling, the main crux of the movie.


The director's lack of experiance is seen when he used the two energetic songs in the beginning itself. He might have used them in before the climax.

First half and second half go in similar tone with entertainment. The films like ‘Super’, where Nag played a role with negative tinge will be recalled while watching this.

Audiences sit with expectations when Anushka appears on screen with a special song imagining something in the standards of ‘bommali..bommali..’. But the expectations aren’t reached.

New director Kiran tried to give a full dose entertaining treat and he has failed to accomplish. It's confusing for masses. The love angle and emotions aren’t presented in a subtle way to attract class audience.

Bottom Line: Not Exciting

Rann Review By Early Tollywood : Marvellous and Straight on Bull's Eye

Movie : Rann
Rating : 3.75/5
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Cast : Amitabh Bachchan, Sudeep, Ritesh Deshmukh, Paresh Rawal, Mohnish Behl, Suchitra Krishnamurthy, Rajat Kapoor, Gul Panag, Neetu Chandra, Rajpal Yadav, Rahul Pendkalkar, Neena Kulkarni, Simone Singh, Iklaq Khan, Alok Nath and Others
Banner : Vistaar Religare Film Fund, Big Bang Films Production, WSG Pictures
Music : Dharmaraj Bhatt and others
Cinematography : Amit Roy
Producer: Sheetal Vinod Talwar, Madhu Mantena
Released Date: January 29, 2010

Review:

As you all know that revealing the story spoils the essence of the movie. Revealing the story in a review is the most foolish thing. And our great media is first to reveal the story and they dont even care anyone, they shoot the movie in the theatre and show some scenes in their channels and put them on Youtube for the faaking TRP ratings. And incidentally this movie one of my favorite directors RGV, strikes hard against these people who are merely doing business on these fake news.


So as usually we try to review how the movie is.It's been a long time that we had a smashing movie from RGV. Even though Sarkar was a powerful movie but somehow there was something lacking in the movie. And now there is Rann. Rann is a movie which projects what you think and what you feel. It shows how the news channels crawl for TRP ratings and money.

Highlights :

1. Ram Gopal Varma. Screenplay and dialogues are brilliant.

2. Cinematography and Background music. Absolutely brilliant. Ramu knows where to put the silence and where the sound should come.

3. Amitabh Bachchan and Sudeep stole the show.


4. Paresh Rawel was as usually at his best. Ritesh Deshmukh was nice. The actor in the position of opposite channel's MD seat is fantastic.

5. Neetu Chandra was sexy and decent for the role. I watched Gul Panag for the first time on the screen. Her energy was nice but there was no scope for much of action for her.

6. Rajpal Yadav and Others were good. No one spoiled the movie.


View on Movie:

A great movie to watch if you seriously have social consciousness and what is being shown by media now-a-days. The movie hit the bull's eye on the concept and I hope it would be a commercial success too. After all everyone hates these channels who crawl for TRPs.
Dont Miss the Movie if you are a big fan of Ramu and also if you are not.

Great Actor Gummadi Passes away : Early Tollywood pays him a tribute

Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (82), the legend of Telugu film industry passes away today at Care Hospital, Hyderabad.

He was admitted into the hospital as he turned severely ill. Both his kidneys were failed and followed by that, it resulted in multi organ failure. Gummadi was earlier affected with paralysis but got convalesced fighting with it. He appeared last in the movie ‘Kasinayana’ in 2008 while his first movie was Adrushta Deepudu in 1950. He was born on 9th July 1927.

His last recorded video was on 20th January 2010 when he shared his views on color-Mayabazaar.

For Full Profile of Gummadi CLICK HERE.